Create Alexa skills and Google Assistant actions with Markup

with simple markup language. No Programming. So Servers. No Headache. Write once - deploy everywhere.

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BotTalk Blog

BotTalk has been just updated to a new version - [Concorde]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConcordeSee more

BotTalk Blog

The last release has been all about Tests. And today we're very excited to announce the Next Gig Thing in Voice - Plugins. We're receiving continuous feedback from our users about how easy and fast it is to write voice applications for Alexa and Google Actions with BotTalk.

BotTalk Blog

It's been three weeks since our last release, but the BotTalk Devs are restless. And we're excited to share the fresh batch of updates. Bottalk has always been proud of its Random Walker Test feature.

Medium

Following best practices of Voice Interface Creation - to create complex Skills - we need to first start with a use case, then draft the mind map of the dialog flow. And only after that start writing the logic. Mixing this steps is a bad practice. And that's why BotTalk encourages the separation of these three distinct phases of skill creation.

Medium

BotTalk is not a minimalist drag-and-drop tool, it's a metropolis. One filled with all the major features needed to run engaging, interesting and beautiful Alexa Skills and Google Home Actions. This means there's a lot to learn! But it also means you can learn it piece by piece.

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Using Amazon Alexa’s voice enabled devices for workplaces

Alexa for Business is a new service that enables businesses and organizations to bring Alexa into the workplace at scale.

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The Verge

Amazon's business subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, has announced a new initiative to get companies using Alexa in the office. The company imagines that the virtual assistant will help employees launch conference calls, organize room bookings, and even wrangle with their expenses.

TechCrunch

The interface is evolving. What has long been dominated by screens of all shapes and sizes is now being encroached upon by the voice. And while many companies are building voice interfaces - Apple with Siri, Google with Assistant, and Microsoft with Cortana - none are quite as dominant as Amazon has been with Alexa.

Master the Alexa Skills Kit with Python

Design, prototype, publish voice apps for Alexa in minutes

PullString Converse is focused on empowering digital professionals, brand specialists, digital marketers, and agency folks of all kinds to dive in and create interactive dialog.

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Pullstring

We are excited to announce PullString Converse today. In large part due to platforms like Alexa, Google Assistant, and others, it is now obvious that voice will power the next generational change in computing. PullString has built some of the highest quality computer conversation in market over the past several years with leading brands and creative agencies…See more

Making voice apps sound more human

SSML Editor is an easy-to-use visual editor to improve the speech output of voice applications (like Alexa or Google Assistant). Instead of writing SSML tags into your code you can tinker around with a WYSIWYG editor and export the final code once you're ready.

Lists the best new Alexa Skills, every day

Create for web, mobile and voice instantly 😎

Peck lets you be the expert on your favorite thing. You can assemble and access important information with our simple web app in seconds — from family schedules to curated news to useful stuff that is buried in the Web. With zero coding you can now author for Web, Mobile, and Voice in an instant.

Quickly create Alexa flash briefing skills without coding

Create skills like ‘Top offers for the day’ using your API to update users about your product daily

Instantly create a flash briefing skill for your blog on Medium or WordPress

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Medium

Flash briefing skills are the most common skills being created on the Alexa platform. Many major content creators already have their skills developed and published to keep their users engaged. ApiToBot is making it easy for anyone to create flash briefing skills.

Live out Westworld with your Amazon Echo

Are you sure this game is meant for you? To find out, become a host and move through Westworld on 60 possible paths to consciousness, built from show sound effects, storylines and over 2 hours of unique gameplay.

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Adage

Working on a condensed, 15-week timeline, 360i and HBO created "Westworld: The Maze," an Amazon Alexa voice skill that lets players control the actions of a "host," an artificial humanoid in the show's Western theme park, on a quest for personhood. Here's how they built an all-audio feat of conversational AI.

Twitter

PullString powers the new WestWorld Alexa skill and enabled the 360i and HBO team to produce and release it in record time. https://t.co/n42fyACtFiSee more

WIRED

This Amazon Echo doesn't seem to understand that all I want is a whiskey. I'm seated in the Tribeca offices of marketing firm 360i and the haunting voice coming out of its little speaker just says, "Never heard of it."

Make Alexa your kid's English teacher!

Fun Learn is a skill to learn to pronounce English words, spell them, learn their meanings, the part of speech they are, and also an example sentence that uses the word! Fun Learn is your kid's new English teacher now! Simply open the skill, select the level you want to play and learn. Fun learn is a part of #AmazonAlexaKidSkillChallenge

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Devpost

Fun Learn - Fun Learn is a fun and awesome skill to learn to pronounce English words, spell them and much more!

A suite of Alexa skills to aid children learning Phonics

Have you heard your kids sounding out letters when they read or, pretend ants are running up their arms? Then your kids are learning to read using the Phonics system. Phonics is how schools learn to read. We are building a suite of technology tools that use voice interaction to support children’s learn through Phonics at school.

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Rarely

Technology is an important aid to education. As more of our daily lives involve technology we need to teach the next generation how to get the best out of it. As parents, we are always looking for new ways to help support our children alongside the curriculum they learn through school.